A developer's guide to setting up integration tests with Ava.js and Express, exploring alternatives to Supertest and using Gulp for server management.
A reflection on teaching basic cryptography to children, highlighting the importance of usable security through historical ciphers like the rail fence and Caesar cipher.
A software tester argues for the value of documented test cases, especially for onboarding and regression testing, based on personal experience.
A developer uses dotPeek and Visual Studio to debug an IIS crash caused by a recursive method, analyzing a crash dump to find the root cause.
A guide to disciplined C programming, emphasizing maintainability, simplicity, and avoiding dangerous patterns for writing robust code.
A review of 'The Pragmatic Programmer' book, assessing its timeless principles and relevance in modern software development.
A developer details migrating their blog from WordPress to Jekyll and GitHub Pages after hosting issues, highlighting the benefits of static site generation.
A guide to using the JSONB data type in PostgreSQL, covering indexing, querying, and practical examples for storing and searching JSON data.
A guide to recovering lost Python source code from a running process using pyrasite and uncompyle6.
A software engineer's guide to managing the overwhelming flow of technical information and staying current in the tech industry.
A technical guide detailing the steps and troubleshooting for installing QEMU from source on an AWS EC2 Amazon Linux instance.
A technical guide on mounting VMDK/OVF/OVA virtual disk images on AWS EC2, covering conversion, partition mounting, and LVM setup.
Author announces leaving Rittman Mead after 5 years to join Confluent as a Partner Technology Evangelist for Apache Kafka.
A developer investigates and fixes a subtle bug in Python tests for Themis' Secure Comparator, caused by C integer overflows in ctypes.
Needle v1.0.0 released with a new native Objective-C agent, adding iOS 10 support and replacing old dependencies.
Explores Oracle 12.2's new Property Graph feature for graph analysis within the database, using a practical setup guide.
A technical walkthrough of simulating a chaotic triple pendulum system in Python using Sympy and Kane's Method.
A software engineer shares strategies and sources for staying current in the rapidly evolving tech industry, balancing work and family life.
A critical analysis of Google AMP, focusing on its SEO incentives and impact on web performance and publisher adoption.
Explores how historical scientific theories, once considered reasonable, can inform our understanding of current programming paradigms and their potential future obsolescence.
